Friday, December 07, 2012

More blasts from the past...

A recent release of classified documents shows how US has manipulated West Asia. A B&E exclusive

American Presidents have wanted to differentiate themselves from their precursors with abrupt alterations in Middle East guidelines and dubious tactics that have only helped in damaging American integrity in the area. And as far as conflict resolution is concerned, on several occasions, presidential judgments and the out-sized sway of White House advisers and foreign statesmen and their envoys, have defined US policy. Recently, declassified White House documents released by National Security Archive reveal how knee-jerk actions (and inactions) by several presidents of the United States shaped the (mis?)fortunes of Middle-East.

For example, the personal pleadings of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, who tried to convince President Nixon in June 1973 that conflict was imminent in the Middle East and that the lone approach to avert it was by a vigorous ambassadorial involvement by the superpowers, went unheard. The document reveals Brezhnev pressing, cajoling, and nearly beseeching with Nixon to arrive to a concord on Israeli terms. It emerges that Brezhnev's endeavour possibly would have been genuine. But in the summer of 1973, the outlook in the White House appears to have been that given the “Watergate Scandal” on the domestic front, it was politically too hazardous to move into the minefield of Middle East negotiation. And war followed, as Brezhnev had envisaged.

However, when war broke out, Nixon’s resolve of non-intervention melted and the US started arming Israel. The documents released show how, in a propaganda move, US accused USSR of intervention to justify its move.


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
An Initiative of IIPM, Malay Chaudhuri

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